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The Lightroom and Aperture Edition of Perfect Photo Suite 7 is designed for the photographer who does not use Photoshop but uses Lightroom or Aperture as the hub of their photo management and editing workflows. It provides powerful image editing tools that do not exist in those products and gives them the ability to extend their image editing power, maximize their creativity, and solve the most common problems in photo editing.

NOTE: onOne software has changed the name of Genuine Fractals to Perfect Resize. Below is the original review of Genuine Fractals. For more info on Perfect Resize, please visit our Perfect Resize Page.

Thanks to its ability to increase images to more than 10 times their original size while maintaining all of the finesse and fine detail of the original, photographers, designers and printers alike are being blown away. And they're working with less stress!

Use this plugin alongside Lightroom and Apple Aperture, and with Adobe Photoshop (download a free trial). (My earlier Genuine Fractals review from March 2006 has been saved for archival purposes and can be found below.)

As with other onOne plugins, the clean, simple, intuitive, and easy to use interface makes working with Genuine Fractals a real pleasure. Tutorials abound. After installing you'll be given a quick tour video which will help you get started right away, and when you launch the plugin you'll have the option of watching more video tutorials. Spend less than an hour following the main Genuine Fractals tutorials and you’ll learn everything you need to know to ensure you end up with stunning, professional looking output.

I use it to blow up my good iPhone images. Sometimes that’s all you’ve got to shoot with, and knowing that post-processing includes the ability to enlarge with a professional level of resolution and detail is comforting and leads to taking more photos. The way I see it, Genuine Fractals gives you the ability to digitally increase your camera’s megapixel count. Yes, it’s that good. So you can feel free to shoot and rest assured that a lower megapixel camera, like phone cameras, can take picture that will have enough info for Genuine Fractals to do it’s amazing magic and render them at a higher res that will be suitable for printing purposes.

Use it to create large format prints, or to convert low-res images into magazine quality visuals, and use presets to control your textures. Now you can make pro-quality images in any size or resolution you choose.

And you can store them in much smaller spaces: Genuine Fractals 6 can compress your images without losing any of the detail. Open your files in the size you choose rather than storing several versions of the same image. Think of it as resolution on demand!

Genuine Fractals plugin offers the new Gallery Wrap feature which prevents the loss of detail at the edges of your images by automatically extending their margins: so when you create gallery canvases you won’t lose any of your original image.

You can also print large format visuals on small format printers using the Tiling feature. This will divide your enlarged image into smaller segments – you just select the paper size and the overlap. Genuine Fractals will automatically resize the image to work with your printer’s specs.

The new improved version of onOne’s batch processing engine enables you to resize an entire folder of images to the same size. You can also make up to two new versions of each image. Work with size, resolution, formatting, color space and watermarks.

Genuine Fractals 6 is available in two versions, Professional Edition and Standard Edition. Both of them come with the same award-winning, patented image resizing algorithm that Genuine Fractals is famous for. Pro lets you work in Lightroom and APerture as well.

This is a great Photoshop add-on to have and will render top quality blowups with ease and speed. Genuine Fractals is a great plugin to have in your toolbox!

“Interpolation - the process of adding pixels to an image - should be handled with care. Using Photoshop's Image Size dialog... sometimes works, but quality can suffer. We got better results with Genuine Fractals.” — American Photo Magazine

“How well does Genuine Fractals work? I took a few photos, upsampled them using Genuine Fractals, and submitted them to two stock photography houses that don't accept upsampled images. (They've even rejected more than a dozen of my images that they suspected were upsampled.) My original images were 3002x2000 pixels and I scaled them up to 6004x4000 before submitting them. The stock photography houses evaluated the photos and accepted all of them.” — Dave Huss, Photoshop User Magazine

"Genuine Fractals is my choice of tools when I want to scale or change the linear resolution of my pixel-based images in Photoshop while maintaining the highest possible image quality," Photoshop author, trainer and Prepress 'Guru' Taz Tally says. "In addition, images that I resample with Genuine Fractals respond better to sharpening than those resampled with bicubic interpolation in Photoshop."

Patented Technique To Increase Size And Resolution Of ImagesWell Taz Tally has seriously endorsed Genuine Fractals with that statement. Now, although Genuine Fractals can scale up your image all the way to 700% without degrading image quality, I'm going to try something a little bit more real world.

So here's the scenario: I have a low-quality web image that is 160 pixels across, but I need it to be 250 pixels across. That's a good amount of enlarging (156%).

I'll use a file with solid colors, some text and an image. It's from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which is a donor-funded nonprofit that protects our civil liberties on the net. They recently launched a Bloggers' Rights campaign which features a poster that I'll use as an example for this test.

So Here We Go - Let's Start Scaling UpYou start by opening your image in Photoshop. If you're working with multiple images, make sure the desired image window is active. From the File menu choose Automate, then choose Genuine Fractals. The active image will now open in the Genuine Fractals Work Area.

The left portion of the work area is a Preview window. A Navigation pane in the upper right corner shows a smaller view of the entire image, with red lines marking out exactly what portion of the image the Preview window is displaying. At the right side, below the Navigation pane, are panels for image scale and crop options. A toolbar is found below the option panels.

You can view and change scaling information in the Image Scale panel of the Genuine Fractals Work area.

So I took the smaller poster (160 pixels across) and I scaled it up to 250 pixels across. There was some blur, so I applied Unsharp Mask (Amount: 60%, Radius: 4.0 pixels, Threshold: 30 levels) and then saved it as a JPEG, set at Medium Quality (50). That's the poster you see just to the right.

As you can see this image is still a tiny bit blurry, and some of the solid colors and text have started to pixelate. This is because I used a web image that started out optimized and therefore at low quality. Given these circumstances the final result is pretty amazing. Higher quality photos will turn out much more superbly of course.

Ease Of UseThe interface is very simple and straight forward, and I had the whole thing done in no time at all. That's the way I like to work. It was totally painless.

Summary  So Do I Need This?If you are in a workflow that finds you enlarging photos on a regular basis, then this is an indispensable tool that is worth every penny. It's easy to install, the manual makes sense (I know, that sounds totally unbelievable) and the interface is a pleasure to work with. Does it deliver the goods? Yes it does. But remember that you need to start with a good quality image for Genuine Fractals to really work it's voodoo right.

So there you have it, a real workhorse of a tool that gives Photoshop some supernatural powers.

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